Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxix. 1) But then, if one examines, these are words of consolation: Because I go to the Father. For they shew that His death was only a translation: and more consolation follows: And again, a little while, and ye shall see Me: an intimation this that He would return, and after a short separation, come and live with them for ever.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 16:16-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗